skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they take care not to drill through any faults, which I expect they will, then the whole hole will move as one.
Apple owns the world's biggest hedge fund
astute article, as a full time drupal dev, i agree on most points
> the most racist things don't target the race of anyone, just their income level.

This is basically a denial that actual racism is a serious problem. I think that's worse than saying the n-word a thousand times.

Even if Obamacare gives every black person free health insurance and also a pony, that's not going to make even a tiny dent in the racism that pervades our society, and saying that it will is just spreading ignorance (imo).

EDIT: Not that I'm saying our country's health care issues aren't totally messed up! Just that that's a different problem.
I would change clients if the new client prioritized speed. I hate waiting and dealing with constant lag just because I don't like deleting email. If you build a client that can handle 10k+ emails spread through 5 different inboxes I would pay for it.
There's nothing about the phrase 'white trash' which implies someone is a criminal, though.
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It's not his responsibility to "fight racism", it's the responsibility of his employers to provide a non-racist workplace. Your "correct response" is of course ideal, but imagine how draining it would be for someone to attempt to change an corporate culture 200+ people. It's unfair to expect that from an someone whose only wants to not have to endure severe racism at their 9-5.
So the hotels have finally worked out lastminute.co is bad for them and started offering affiliate fees? Interesting - that could open up a lot of options - is that how it's working for you?
How to Buy Stocks and Avoid Becoming a Closet Index Fund
Physics in Javascript - Synchronization
I work with drupal contractors quite a bit and they charge a minimum of 150-250 an hour these days.
$737M was the unit cost for them, not including procurement and R&D. Including those it's just over $2B.
This deserves an analysis far more nuanced than I'm able to deliver. How has the integration of Italians versus Irish gone in New York? I can't answer that, because I've never studied it. I suspect it went better than the integration of whites and blacks in the South. Why? I can't answer that for the same reason.

I suspect we're both right for different reasons under different circumstances, and it would be fascinating to actually go through the histories and anthropologies to understand what those reasons and circumstances might be.
I've done one of those before. The biggest pain was cutting all the little lines out. It's probably worth $12 just for a pre-cut version, plus you can customize it!
Anyone who has an MBA will tell you that the least valuable thing about the experience is the book learning.

Just like there is an opportunity cost of getting a real MBA there is an opportunity cost of reading all of these books.
>Are you seriously asking these questions? Do you realize that you're coming across as defending deplorable behavior? Do you care? Would you say these sorts of things to the author's face?

I sure would. He comes off as a judgemental, reverse-racist (I lost count of the "anti-white-in-general" references), and unable to take a joke guy with an axe to grind.

I care far more for actual cases of racism, like an over-representation of the black population being in prison, or the government (and the country) pissing all over native american rights, that for some guy crying over some jokes said in his office without any links to actual facts of racism (like, I was paid less because I was black, I was not promoted because I was black, etc).

>There's a large sea of historical context that we're all swimming in. You can pretend it doesn't exist and make your cute little conjectures about Irish and Redneck jokes.

YOU might be swimming in. This is the internet, it's global. My country didn't trade in black slaves, so I could care less for that hypocritical "after the fact" guilt.
Steam / Big Picture will never be "must-have" for living room use until they can make it compelling and easy for people to use in that environment.

But that goes against the whole reason why they are popular in the first place - the fact that they are primarily a PC game store, and their customers like playing games with the devices typically attached to their computers, like mouse and keyboard.
His racism is not the subject of dispute here. The racism that the story focuses on is the one that created a hostile workplace and is the subject of legal action.
Thanks for posting this. So much of HN seems blissfully unaware of what privilege is (white privilege in this case), and I hope your explanation will help some people start to understand.
I totally see where you're coming from, and I don't think that we need a consensus opinion on everything. I'm just really disturbed that "don't be a sexist asshole" and "don't be a racist asshole" are still actual controversial positions in a community I care so much about.

I don't know if talking about it will make anything any better, but I have a hard time with the idea of not talking about it as a way to improve things.
In this situation perhaps it's most constructive to proceed with the conversation under the assumption that he honestly related his experiences, while acknowledging that we don't have a solid reason for believing him. We could run around in circles all day trying to reason things out -- for example, I could point out that exaggeration and embellishment are normal when people vent to their peers -- but we'd never get any closer to the truth. Unless we know him or the people he's talking about, we can't evaluate his credibility without making some unjustified assumption (such as the assumption that he's worse at lying than you are at spotting a lie,) but we can justify treating the story as honest on the grounds that it leads to a more interesting conversation than treating it as a lie.
I find the switch between hjkl and uhjk easier than the switch between asdf and wasd, but that could just be me.
My first thought (before reading) was that this was a commercial mining operation, in the vein of asteroid mining missions, etc.
If you don't flare before touchdown and are not flying a Navy plane built for carrier landings, you will break your aircraft pretty badly when you slam into the runway at your normal descent speed.
Metaphors are hard sometimes. I'm learning to be more cautious with them.
Zuckerberg: more mobile web Facebook users than Android & iOS apps combined
>"It will be the equivalent of dangling a steel string the width of a human hair in the deep end of a swimming pool and inserting it into a thimble 1/10 mm wide on the bottom, and then drilling a few meters into the foundations," says Teagle.

If this is indeed an accurate analogy than I would be very interested to see it done as a proof of concept!
This comment confuses me. If you're going to use Drupal as a framework and ignore the rest, then why not just use Django or Rails, both of which are cleaner and more sophisticated frameworks?

I don't think it's fair to look down on people who use Drupal as it's meant to be used.
people seem to be discussing the new site, but what i liked about the post was the really good write up on the team dynamics involved in the site redesign. it sounds significantly more functional (non-dysfunctional?) than most stories coming out of microsoft.
You really hit the nail on the head with this post. I still like the polish iOS, but Apple proves that there is indeed such a moral hazard when one vendor is controlling everything.

What I'd like to see the mobile space into is some kind of 'commodity era' like with the PC:

Apps

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Appstore <- Each OS has its default appstore but others can be installed

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OS <- can be licenced with no strings attached to device. When you buy a new handset you will be asked "would like Android or Windows or XYZ?

I wonder whether there is any market pressure into such a standardization. Why did IBM create PC as an industry standard back then, was it for licensing value? Couldn't this be an interesting model for someone like Texas Instruments or Nokia nowadays? (Player in non dominant position with stakes and experience in the hardware business).
You just do not get it do you. I suppose you do not realize the enormous potential of asking people for a twitter/facebook logon when they throw refuse in a hole in the ground. You can then track each person's refuse relate it to the refuse of their friends and you will have billions worth of data to be mined.
Javascript is quirky. It's a great language, but c'mon...please. That horse has been beaten to death and the long discussion on this topic alone is proof of it's quirkiness and it's numerous pitfalls.

The idea that (optional) strict typing and (optional) well-defined OO practices would only work to act as a "safety net" for new developers is, quite frankly, ludicrous. Static typing is the bedrock of static analysis and if you can't see the value in static analysis, take a read here - http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysi...

You're welcome to keep doing things the hard way. You will certainly be enabled to do so since Javascript is not going anywhere. But easy-to-use Javascript-compatible languages with powerful, precise and accessible features are the future, IMO. I don't think I'm alone in that sentiment given the recently budding interest in this arena.
There's a difference between beinf afraid to write code and avoiding reinventing the wheel. If there's a Drupal module that gives you what you need, why would you not use it?
Disturbingly, when dealing with free speech the US courts are actually more likely to defend the indefensible. For instance, the US Supreme Court unamously ruled that anti-draft speech - actual political speech - wasn't protected by the First Amendment in Schenck v. United States, and the same again with groups advocating Communism in Whitney v. California.

This precedent stood until Brandenburg v. Ohio when suddenly the Supreme Court reversed itself in order to stop the KKK from being outlawed, deciding that it was now suddenly really important for violent rhetoric to have full First Amendment protection. The KKK was actually much further over the line than the precedent-setting groups - they backed up their talk with a long and bloody history of actual violence and murder against black people. In fact some of the speech that the Supreme Court ruled was protected, such as cross-burning, was actually created as a warning to any black residents that they'd be next if they didn't leave town. Somehow the justices cared more about protecting this than they did about protecting actual, political statements that challenged the status quo.
I've been using Steam for three years now and haven't had any account issues like that. Loss of internet connection, yes - but that's typically been an issue on my end.
Remember that false positives aren't really a problem to police and especially prosecutors. Most criminal cases in the US don't go to trial, so they just want enough to sweat people into plea-bargaining.
ripe for airbnb acquisition.
RAID6 or die
my previous (bought in 2005) laptop was a dell inspiron 1440 that had a 1400x900 screen. when i replaced it (in 2009) the best i could do for a similar price and cpu performance was an inspiron 15 that had a 1366x768 resolution. it's not a matter of people being cheap, screen resolutions really have retrogressed.
Just play a round of `M-x keywiz` each morning.
healthcare and quality of education being tied to your parents employment and property ownership

Unless I misunderstand you, that's part of reality. Healthcare and education don't fall from the sky. Somebody has to produce them. In order for them to be consumed, they have to either be paid for, or stolen.

the most racist things don't target the race of anyone, just their income level

Racism has a specific definition, and "targeting" someone based on income doesn't meet it (though I don't know what "targeting" means here).
(This is a comment on the parent comment, not a comment on the original post. Hope that's alright.)

"You start to see that it is also a privilege to be able to argue, even vehemently, without inadvertently confirming a malignant stereotype about your heritage or upbringing."

Very well said. Thanks for articulating this idea. Don't forget that this goes both ways, though.

As a straight white male that grew up in a very progressive college town, with almost all of my friends being progressive socially liberal graduates, I am constantly "educated" on my privilege and dismissed, ala "there goes that (straight) white guy again with his white privilege and lack of understanding", simply for attempting civilized discourse that is anything but blindly supportive of their social and racial views.

I have to question a sociopolitical philosophy that leaves a lot of its followers avoiding dialogue with and dismissing the people who are most likely the closest to sharing their concerns and ideals.

What I'm trying to convey here is that not much attention is paid, particularly by those who otherwise like talking about privilege as a concept, to the privilege of being able to argue. As I believe civilized discourse is a bedrock of our society, this concerns me. "And it should concern you too!"
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13 weeks is a long time for an upgrade.
That is the Tarn Adams theory.
The analogy doesn't hold up unless he actually expressed racist views in the workplace. He's not a serial arsonist, he's just a guy who builds bonfires in the privacy of his home.
Steam has (and has had for a while) an offline mode, but it doesn't work reliably for some. If you go through the release notes for the Steam client over the past few years, you can see instances of Valve "fixing" offline mode.

You also have to be online to download, install and launch a game for the first time.
No, he's right. The basic principle here is, do not talk to "progressive" black people, because you are likely to say something innocuous that they interpret as highly offensive. That is the message being sent here.
It is a little known fact that fully depreciated planes (like the 727 in the example) are cheap, its operating them that is expensive. Adding up the costs of mandatory maintenance, repairs, upgrades, consumables (gas, tires, hydraulic fluid, etc). That is what bites you.

And the 'most people survive' is something of a misnomer. Start trolling through http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/reports_aviation.html and you will see that accidents you would expect to be modestly survivable (low altitude takeoff and landing issues) are, and ones like the Air France jet falling out of the sky over the Atlantic are not.
A user login, you say? First, find bcrypt or scrypt bindings for your programming language of choice. Here's one for Python, with some very concise example code:

http://www.mindrot.org/projects/py-bcrypt/

Store the hashed password that bcrypt gives you in a database somewhere. Make sure your login goes over HTTPS. I think that should cover the basics; do you have any specific questions?
We should have mandates that deep drilling for oil should carry a requirement to assist in some of this research.

"Want mining/mineral rights? Then you must provide this [data] as a part of allowance for access"
Trevor Burnham: What are disadvantages of using CoffeeScript?
Literally actually really very specifically specific.
> I agree with one point, however: It is disappointing when smart people display a profound ignorance of computing history.

Yeah, this was kind of an odd non sequitur that didn't go anywhere. I half-expected the article to actually give an illustration from computing history.
WebRTC gets real as Google adds more video chat functionality to Chrome
Really? You think he dislikes all white people? Are you sure he doesn't just hate racist white people?

This is another form of white privilege, white people weighing in on what is and isn't racism. White people are the people least qualified to talk about this. Most white people are completely blind to racism except in the most egregious cases. (Spoiler: those are among the least common.)

And let's face it: white people are, by far, the ones who dole it out most often and virulently, the minute they feel threatened by a "thug" (a black man who is either arguing passionately or wearing baggy pants).

All in all, I'm willing to cut this guy more than a little slack! He probably got a more thorough education about the politics and dynamics of race in the first N years of his life as a black male than most white people get in a lifetime.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately since I have a new roommate who went to art school instead of a four-year university and doesn't seem to have any idea when he's saying something racist.

People often seem to think that only STEM degrees teach real skills, but humanities and social sciences teach you to think critically about culture and society, and even though nobody's ever going to pay me to do that, I'd like to think the world's a better place for every person who's had their eyes opened a little bit. The disadvantage of course is that then afterwards, culture and society horrify you at every turn for the rest of your life.
I think the idea's really neat, but at the same time I'm concerned about the effect that things like this have on the attitude of our culture. A large part of critical reading is being able to take the time to read an article/passage in-depth and judge its ideas for yourself.

From a business standpoint, are there maybe certain types of content that just aren't viable to "summarize?" Would it be better to tailor your service towards certain other types of content? Just my thoughts.
I don't buy the inept designer act. Your project page is very good and your new promo artwork is like a miniature version of it: http://www.dwellable.com/h/26684/Oahu/East-Oahu/Kailua/Alii-...
Superman movie.
NYC tech campus gets US patent officer
How do our brains process music?
There are some people even who carry lockpicks and locks and practice picking for sport and they are all over, like on /r/lockpicking and on places like HN....

I don't know who these people might be - but I know they are out there.
I'll make the third request in a comment since you can't see the upvotes.
The "tone argument" isnt necessarily an attempt to counter the opposing viewpoint. It's a derailment.

"Yes, you're angry but instead of talking about why you're angry let's talk about how the way you expressed your anger is inappropriate".

Its an inappropriate topic change, directing blame at the author when it's really not warranted.
I see where you're coming from. I guess I should have said "there's a large sea of historical context that the OP was swimming in"

It feels you're setting up a false dichotomy between "actual" racism that involves things like incarceration rates and workplace discrimination and "fake" racism that involves things like hostile workplaces and harassment. It is possible to care about both.

And maybe you wouldn't cry over jokes like that, but it doesn't mean that it's wrong for someone else to have a different response.
As a resident of the UK, I think that if we did have a written constitution, regrettably free speech wouldn't be on it. As much as I personally believe in free speech, I do get the impression that the general public here don't.
Personally, I would really like to see this attacked by TOOL and Schuyler Towne to see how vulnerable it is.

I love the idea of this device, but I also love seeing locks defeated.
This is just out of the box thinking. Beautiful product. Ordering three.

Sales tip: this would make great Christmass Tree ornaments. I imagine a Chrsitmass tree with my whole family represneted as little carboard figures. Lovely.
Simon Cowell and Will.i.am to launch 'X Factor for Tech' (Wired UK
I'm not an MS developer, but Visual Studio has had achievements for a while now, including anti-achievements for things like using a goto.

http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio
> So racial epithets are OK as long as you're targeting a group of people who have wronged you? Got it.

So long as you're talking about a group of people who have systemic, institutionalized power over you based on the colour of their own skin? Damn right they're OK. I hate to break it to you, but it's pretty much only white people that think race is no big deal. People of colour tend to get disabused of that foolish idea pretty damn quickly by reality. See for instance http://www.womanist-musings.com/2012/02/anti-racist-billboar...
Regardless of where he said it, "dumbwhite*" is a phrase with racist intent. Objectively based, "fucking black people" is just a reference to people with a dark skin color but in the context of the English language we all know what it means.

I agree it's not his job to educate, and he shouldn't have to. But in reality, most racists are not going to educate themselves. If they did, they probably wouldn't be racists. So if he actually wants to see a positive change and stop Steve from making racist comments, his best bet is to try and educate Steve himself.
Also, bonus points for flipping it around suggesting the real racist here is the victim. Now it's rhetorically impossible to point out that white people have a sense of privilege without also being racist oneself! Well played.
Yep. There isn't anything very scientific about how he came up with this conclusion.

It would be better to try a study in which you give half the users the social network login, and half the users the regular login, and track their activity.
Can you expand on this? How is this comment relevant to the article?
I'm using Drupal as a back-end, and doing the fun stuff in the front-end on the client. No boring days here.
I bought two from their Kickstarter for the girlfriend and I. I liked mine, but the girlfriend not so much - something about me telling her this stumpy little box was modelled on her didn't go down so well :)
Tell HN: Just finished reading "The Launch Pad"
I had forgotten I pre-ordered the book when it was mentioned on HN before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4359715

I thought it was quite fascinating.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Launch-Pad-Combinator-Exclusive/dp/1591845297
I think we have common ancestors with whales a lot more recently than proteins. It doesn't matter: we have common ancestors with them, therefore we've been evolving the same length of time.

> btw you don't have to know me

This is the internet, where no-one knows if you're a non-DNA based lifeform -- as your first comment seemed to suggest.
AppleScripters: GUI-less app to send user notifications in Mountain Lion
totally, though I'm not sure it'd be worth it. As best I can tell (I helped with the teardown), it's a 400mhz processor, 256MB of RAM and is running Android 2.2. Anything beyond that would likely hurt performance more than it already is.

I'm 99% sure this is it, based on the schematic and how the phone responded to us touching the contacts that aligned with the image: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Cheapest-Android-mobile-phone...
Clicked on the About link, christ they are all dressed up as something out of a Nazi movie!!!

Well maybe I would have looked at it differently if it wasn't for OP's blogpost but still cheesy.
As an owner of an iPad 1 that is blocked from getting iOS 6, it's tragic that iTunes won't automatically keep the last version of my apps before they upgrade to iOS 6. So as time goes by I'm going to lose all my software for my iPad if I update apps in iTunes. :(

Moral hazard indeed.